Blazar Research Articles

Useful Articles in Blazar Research

Review Articles

Variability of Extragalactic Radio Sources: Theory and Observation	Altschuler	1989, FCPh, 14, 37
Unified Models for Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars	Antonucci	1993, Ann Rev 31, 473
Extragalactic Radio Jets	Bridle	1984, Ann. Rev. 22, 319
Superluminal Apparent Motions in Distant Radio Sources	Chodorowski	2004, Am J Phys, 73, 639
Modeling Extragalactic Jets	Ferrari	1998, Ann. Rev. 36, 539
Cosmic Magnetobremsstrahlung (Synchrotron Radiation)	Ginzburg & Syrovatskii	1965, Ann. Rev. 3, 297
Compact Radio Sources	Kellermann	1981, Ann. Rev. 19, 373
Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei	Marscher	2006
Magnetohydrodynamic Production of Relativistic Jets	Meier et al.	2001, Science, 291, 84
High Resolution Radio Astronomy Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry	Middelberg and Bach	2008, Rpts Prog Phys, 71
The Compact Steep-Spectrum and Gigahertz Peaked-Spectrum Radio Sources	O'Dea	1998, PASP, 110, 493
Polarization Properties of Extragalactic Radio Sources	Saikia et al.	1988, Ann. Rev. 26, 93
Unified Schemes for Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei	Urry & Padovani	1995, PASJ, 107, 803
Superluminal Motion Statistics and Cosmology	Vermeulen & Cohen	1994, ApJ, 430, 467
The Emission Line Spectrum of Active Galactic Nuclei and the Unifying Scheme	Veron-Cetty & Veron	2000, AA Rev, 10, 81
Intraday Variability in Quasars and BL Lac Objects	Wagner & Witzel	1995, Ann. Rev. 33, 163
Parsec-Scale Jets in Extragalactic Radio Sources	Zensus	1997, Ann. Rev. 35, 607

Computing

Notes on DIFMAP package	Homan	2006
Local Purdue Computing Instructions	Lister	2007
Linux Cheat Sheet	Zender	2008
Latex Cheat Sheet	Zender	2008

Community

Future Prospects for US Radio, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Astronomy	Associated Universities, Inc.	2008
Mapping the Future of VLBI Science in the U.S.	Doeleman et al.	2004
NRAO 2005 NSF Senior Review	NRAO Senior Review	2005
From the Ground Up: Balancing the NSF Astronomy Program	NSF Senior Review	2006
AIP Enrollments and Degrees Report	American Institute of Physics	2007
Graduate School Survival Guide	Azuma	2003

Dissertations

Constraints on jets and accretion disks in low luminosity radio galaxies	Avanti	2007
VLBI Observations of Two Prototypical AGN: 0716+714 and Cyg A	Bach	2004
Bright extragalactic x-ray sources with optical and radio counterparts	Bauer	2001
VLBI and VSOP study of two quasar jets	Chen	2005
Studies of the kpc-scale radio and optical emission from X-ray jets in active galactic nuclei	Cheung	2004
The X-ray view of radio-loud active galactic nuclei: The central engine and its environment	Donato	2005
VLBI Studies of Extremely Distant Quasars	Frey	2000
High-Resolution Study of Selected Intraday Variable Sources	Gabanyi	2006
Environments of powerful radio galaxies through the cosmic ages	Goodlet	2004
Beams, bursts, bubbles, and bullets: Relativistic outflows in astrophysics	Heinz	2000
Polarization Studies of the Parsec Scale Jets of AGN	Homan	1999
Observational Constraints on Cosmological Evolution of Dual-Population Radio Sources	Jamrozy	2002
High-resolution multi-wavelength study of the jet in 3C 273	Jester	2001
Host Galaxies and Environments of Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources	Labiano	2006
Structural changes of the quasar 3C454.3	Lederman	2007
The Influence of Special Relativistic Effects on the Observed Properties of AGN	Lister	1999
Rest frame variability characteristics of blazars	McFarland	2005
Gas Around AGN and New Phase Calibration Strategies for High-Frequency VLBI	Middelberg	2004
A 22 GHZ VLBI Survey of 140 Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources	Moellenbrock	1998
22 GHz VLBA Polarization monitoring of 13 Blazars	Ojha	1998
Geodetic Observations of EGRET Blazars	Piner	1998
Detecting the EB Attenuation of Blazars with GLAST	Reyes	2007
Multifrequency VLBI Studies of Compact Extragalactic Jets	Savolainen	2006
Theoretical study of multifrequency emission variability in blazars	Sokolov	2005
A Multiwavelength Study of Blazars	Sowerds-Emmerd	2005
Pc and Sub-Pc-Scale Structure and Evolution in Nearby Compact Radio Sources	Tingay	1996
Accretion modes and unified schemes for FR-II radio galaxies	Whysong	2005

Books

The Craft of Scientific Writing, 3rd Edition	Alley	1996
The Craft of Scientific Presentations	Alley	2003
An Introduction to Radio Astronomy	Burke and Graham-Smith	2002
Extragalactic Radio Jets	de Young	2006
Beams and Jets in Astrophysics	Hughes	1991
Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei: An Introduction	Kembhavi and Narlikar	1999
Active Galactic Nuclei	Krolik	1999
Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei	Osterbrock	1989
An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei	Peterson	1997
Radiative Processes in Astrophysics	Rybicki and Lightman	1979
Gas Dynamics	Shu	1992
Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II	eds. Taylor, Carilli, and Perley	1999
Practical Statistics for Astronomers	Wall and Jenkins	2003
Quasar Astronomy	Weedman	1986
VLBA Summer School Proceedings	eds. Zensus, Diamond, Napier	1995

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